The next step is to move from hierarchical info displays (such as the above) to mining networks – grous of people who are talking about the same URLs on delicious and twitter, and maybe even blogging about CCK08 too…

I’d be curious to know how many people actually ever go back to the delicious bookmarks they make, or really browse other people’s, and what this wheel really gives you other than a list of keywords you could have devised already.

“I’d be curious to know how many people actually ever go back to the delicious bookmarks they make, or really browse other people’s, and what this wheel really gives you other than a list of keywords you could have devised already.”

Agreed re: returning to delicious…;-)

That said, delicious tags for a URl do provide access to human generated semantic tags for a particular resource; the tags also give you a way in to pivot searches around that tag.

Something Jon Udell has touched on several times is how naive searchers in a particular area can access the “power keywords” they need to search a particular area effectively. delicious tags can sometimes provide a way in to specialist keyword vocabularies, keyed by resources on a particular topic…

… maybe…?!

If you’re in a delicious network, looking at the stream of links bookmarked by other people in your network can also support serendipitous resource discovery.